Ethan Warren is the author of the book The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, coming April 2023 from Columbia University Press.
LICORICE PIZZA
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode nine explores PTA’s loosest and loopiest picture - LICORICE PIZZA.
PHANTOM THREAD
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode eight explores PTA’s unexpectedly boundless Merchant Ivory riff - PHANTOM THREAD.
INHERENT VICE
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard. Episode seven explores PTA’s “odyssey of a man sifting through the clues at the murder scene of a wayward generation to relocate the love of a woman he has lost” - INHERENT VICE.
THE MASTER
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.
Episode six explores PTA’s - THE MASTER
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.
Episode five explores PTA’s dizzying cinematic embodiment of American hypocrisy, a film as moving as a Renaissance fresco in a cathedral - THERE WILL BE BLOOD.
PUNCH DRUNK LOVE
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.
Episode four explores PTA’s career hinge point - the magnificent, quaint, and introverted rom-com - PUNCH DRUNK LOVE.
MAGNOLIA
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.
Episode three explores PTA’s admirably bold, “great/terrible”, “drunk and disorderly”, interpersonal epic - MAGNOLIA.
BOOGIE NIGHTS
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.
Episode two explores PTA’s decade-straddling epic of what Roger Ebert called “living and dying by the sword,” euphemism intended.
HARD EIGHT / SYDNEY
Pod Thomas Anderson is a nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.
Episode One explores PTA’s debut feature - released as “Hard Eight” but referred to (by PTA and his acolytes) as “Sydney”.